GRE Word List
PHOENIX
a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period
The meaning of the word phoenix is a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| generic | relating to or characteristic of a whole group or class : general |
| ruse | a wily subterfuge |
| impuissance | weakness |
| primogeniture | the state of being the firstborn of the children of the same parents |
| snub | to check or stop with a cutting retort : rebuke |
| humid | containing or characterized by perceptible moisture especially to the point of being oppressive |
| recapitulate | to retell or restate briefly : summarize |
| welt | a strip between a shoe sole and upper through which they are stitched or stapled together |
| lottery | a drawing of lots in which prizes are distributed to the winners among persons buying a chance |
| underlying | lying beneath or below |